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Q470 Humiliating punishments
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- Spitting in face as punishment · Q471 entry
- Branding as punishment. (Cf. H55.) · Q472 entry
- Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets. (Cf. Q432.2.) · Q473 entry
- "Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown in · Q474 entry
- Tar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.) · Q475 entry
- Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends) · Q476 entry
- Frightful meal as punishment · Q478 entry
- Princess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.) · Q481 entry
- Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.) · Q482 entry
- Princess must sell goods on market as punishment · Q483 entry
- Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) · Q484 entry
- Noble person must live in hovel · Q485 entry
- Criminal's property destroyed as punishment · Q486 entry
- Adulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.) · Q487 entry
- Cutting hair as punishment · Q488 entry
- Indignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.) · Q491 entry
- Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches · Q492 entry
- Punishment: being saddled and ridden as horse · Q493 entry
- Loss of social position as punishment · Q494 entry
- Punishment: unseemly exposure of body · Q495 entry
- Beard shaved as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, P672.) · Q497 entry
- Other humiliating punishments · Q499 entry
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